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Land of Confusion 7 Inch Single (Virgin – UK Release)

Catalogue Number GEN3

RPM

Tracks

Side A – Land of Confusion (4:45)Side B – Feeding the Fire (5:54)

Lyrics – Land of Confusion

I must’ve dreamed a thousand dreams
Been haunted by a million screams
But I can hear the marching feet
They’re moving into the street.

Now did you read the news today
They say the danger’s gone away
But I can see the fire’s still alight
There burning into the night.

There’s too many men
Too many people
Making too many problems
And not much love to go round
Can’t you see
This is a land of confusion.

This is the world we live in
And these are the hands we’re given
Use them and let’s start trying
To make it a place worth living in.

Ooh Superman where are you now
When everything’s gone wrong somehow
The men of steel, the men of power
Are losing control by the hour.

This is the time
This is the place
So we look for the future
But there’s not much love to go round
Tell me why, this is a land of confusion.

This is the world we live in
And these are the hands we’re given
Use them and let’s start trying
To make it a place worth living in.

I remember long ago –
Ooh when the sun was shining
Yes and the stars were bright
All through the night
And the sound of your laughter
As I held you tight
So long ago –

I won’t be coming home tonight
My generation will put it right
We’re not just making promises
That we know, we’ll never keep.

Too many men
There’s too many people
Making too many problems
And not much love to go round
Can’t you see
This is a land of confusion.

Now this is the world we live in
And these are the hands we’re given
Use them and let’s start trying
To make it a place worth fighting for.

This is the world we live in
And these are the names we’re given
Stand up and let’s start showing
Just where our lives are going to.

Lyrics – Feeding the Fire

You are terrified by the smallest sound
Because you live your life in such a sheltered world
As do those who surround you

Well, I have seen you stung by poisonous flies
And you suffer much too much from their bites
There you sit in your comfort
Watching other people get caught by the storm

Many a thing that used to be a secret
Has become so talked about
Not worth a second thought
There’s different kinds of secrets now

Times change, it’s not enough to say
It seemed a good idea, a hundred years ago
You think it’s not your problem
It really doesn’t matter at all

Every stone that’s thrown must fall to the ground
But you don’t give a thought to where they might come down
You are feeding the fire over which you’ll be roasted

Anywhere that they don’t speak the same
In any place that they don’t think the same
You think it’s not your problem, no no

You think it’s not your problem
It really doesn’t matter at all
Ohh

Maybe it’s not your fate to be a leader of men
But you just leave it all to someone else and complain
You could be so much stronger
But it really doesn’t matter any longer
‘Cos you’re feeding the fire over which you’ll be roasted
‘Cos you’re feeding the fire over which you’ll be roasted